Dr. Ernest J. Sternglass (born 1923, Berlin) is an emeritus professor at the University of Pittsburgh and Director of the Radiation and Public Health Project. He is an American physicist and author, best known for his controversial research on the health risks of low-level radiation from atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons and from nuclear power plants. This is his study “Infant Mortality Changes Following the Three Mile Island Accident,” from 1980: http://atomichistory.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/sternglass_infantmortalitytmi.pdf

No wonder the NRC staff did not want to let the public know that they knew exactly in which direction the most radioactive clouds had moved, since this information could then be used to tie any later localized rises in fetal deaths, infant mortality, and cancer to the radioactive gas clouds from Three Mile Island. SOURCE: http://www.ratical.org/radiation/SecretFallout/SFchp18.html

quote: “But the firing of Gordon MacLeod hardly ended the controversy over the health impact of the accident and how it had been handled. In November, Ernest Sternglass charged that figures from the nearby Harrisburg and Holy Spirit hospitals indicated that infant deaths there had doubled from six during February through April of 1979 to twelve in May through July. Only one infant had died at the Harrisburg Hospital in May through July of 1978; seven had died there in those same three months following the accident. The statistics seemed tragically reminiscent of the era of nuclear bomb testing. The NRC, the state, and the utility had all claimed–as had the AEC after so many atomic explosions–that radiation releases had been too small to have more than a very marginal health impact, if any at all. Sternglass asserted the authorities had failed to account for the extreme sensitivities of fetuses in utero in claiming a very marginal health impact from the accident’s releases…” Ernest Sternglass, “Infant Mortality Changes Following the Three Mile Island Accident,” presented at the 5th World Congress of Engineers and Architects, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1980”

quote: “The charge that TMI had actually killed area infants provoked a storm of outrage from the government of Pennsylvania. The state responded–as it had at Shippingport six years earlier–that the official statistics Ernest Sternglass had used were, after all, inaccurate. Dr. George Tokuhata, director of the state’s Department of Epidemiological Research, said a “printing error” on the part of the U.S. Bureau of Vital Statistics had skewed the state’s infant-mortality figures. There were thus eighty-eight fewer infant deaths in Pennsylvania in the summer of 1979 than originally recorded.Sternglass, however, held his ground. Discrepancies between state and federal data are not uncommon. But this particular case seemed “suspicious.” The discrepancy in infant deaths between the two sources for the period of April 1 through June 30, 1979, had been two; from October 1 through December 31 it had also been two. For eighty-eight to surface between July 1 and September 30, precisely in the controversial summer months after the TMI accident, seemed unlikely.”
More about NRC: https://tekknorg.wordpress.com/2011/07/15/us-n-r-c-says-tritium-is-normal-reason-for-children-leukemia/

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Reference Embryo Information was sent to the Comission on Radiological Protection Germany (web) by the IPPNW (web) two weeks before xmas 2009. No decision yet.

What comes out of cooling towers at atomic power plants?

Steam PLUS Tritium (heavy water, Beta emitter)

In a radius of 5 – 10 km around every atomic power plant PREGNANT women’s embryos are exposed to that.

Around / before/ after the 10th pregnancy week Tritium / beta radiation harms the cell information, when inhaled and transported to the embryo itself. It does not cause a pregnancy abortion, mind you. But after the child is born, and let’s say 2, 3 years are gone, this child is likely to get blood cancer.You should ask your gynecologist about this and leave the area if you want to have a child.

The atomic power plant operators publish only averages of Tritium emissions. This convincing, with those numbers it is possible the camouflage high emissions or even accidents. You can not rely on that.

Dr. Ian Fairlie is an independent scientist who researches on this sector. More HERE

Read all about it HERE and HERE, in the German KiKK Study – released by the Federal Radation Agency (web HERE) in 2007. Children living in a 5 km radius around German atomic power plants do have a higher cancer risc. It is scientific and confirmed in professional circles.

After the 8.9 earthquake on March 11th 2011, 3000 people have been evacuated living around the atomic power plant Fukushima. The emergency cooling system was running on battery mode.

Fukushima Nr.2 (12 km from Nr.1) is now also without cooling system. The Government evacuates everyone within 20 miles. Chernobyl was and is 30 miles – because 30 miles zone was used during the atomic bomb tests in the U.S. 30 miles is pretty useless, because the wind blows the radioactivity thousands of miles away.